Opinion: Seeking questions from Daily Times readers for Salisbury candidates

Let it be known which qualities you want in our next leaders

This past week's chilly and nasty weather made it seem as if spring will never get to Salisbury.

Well, not only is spring less than two weeks away, but the April 2 city election is just more than three weeks away, a few days after Easter. That means it's incumbent upon mayoral and council candidates to make known their vision for Salisbury's future, and for city residents to be vocal in expressing their hopes, their concerns and especially their questions about where things are headed.

In that spirit, The Daily Times Editorial Board will be interviewing candidates beginning next week about the direction in which they would take the city if elected.

Each candidate is to be invited to spend up to 45 minutes about their approach to key issues facing the community. Questions will not be focused on tearing down the other candidates, but on eliciting a clear picture of how the candidate being interviewed would lead.

It is remarkably easy for candidates to place their energies into looking backward, not forward. That's the nature of virtually any campaign, whether it be for president or dogcatcher, and it explains why negativity comes to the fore so readily. What caring citizens often yearn for, however, is to be able to take the measure of the man or woman seeking office and glean the course that candidate plans to take in the future.

Editorial Board members, who include four area citizens, are generating questions for the mayoral and council candidates. It's vital, however, that the board hear from you, our readers. If you could ask any question on an important local issue to the folks running for office in Salisbury this spring, what would it be? We'd like you to share that question with us this week, in advance of next week's interviews. The board will endeavor to ask some of them directly to the candidates. And the candidates' answers during the interviews will be published in their entirety before April 2 in The Daily Times and at Delmarvanow.com.

? Post it on our Facebook page at Facebook.com/The Delmarva Daily Times

? Tweet it to us at @MyDelmarvaNow

Every election is important, and citizen participation is vital to a full airing of important local issues. Please share with us your question for Salisbury candidates, and make a difference in your city's future.

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Opinion: Seeking questions from Daily Times readers for Salisbury candidates

This past week's chilly and nasty weather made it seem as if spring will never get to Salisbury.